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Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie. Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France; colleagues on the cusp of forty, trying to get on. Cassie Burns, the narrator, is testy and cynical in the face of her patient, parochial friend - the Virgin of her Dante - who is driving her not only up the wall and into Normandy but also towards what can only be called ' an understanding' - of exactly how much of what surround her is not 'her place'. This is a novel of Diocalm and travel kettles, boiled sweets and sandwiches, pasties and postcards; a threnody for youth and men intercut with photographs and memories from Cassie's ghastly sexual past, and a sheaf of letters from Rona's grandfather written in the trenches of the Somme. A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of mortality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad. FOREIGN PARTS is that rare hybrid; a striking original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.
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Review:
"The book reassures that no matter how many times you've done something or been somewhere, the humiliations remain as burning, the pleasure as sharp as ever" (Independent)
"A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read" (Observer)
"A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship" (New York Times)
"A pleasure from start to finish" (Guardian)
"Every detail...is described with the accuracy of an X-ray and the urgency of poetry" (Penelope Mortimer Daily Telegraph)
Book Description:
"A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read" (Observer)
"A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship" (New York Times)
"A pleasure from start to finish" (Guardian)
"Every detail...is described with the accuracy of an X-ray and the urgency of poetry" (Penelope Mortimer Daily Telegraph)
Life on the road observed with a biting sensibility for the awkward and the joyous:a tale as comic as it is poignant.
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- PublisherOverlook Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0879515783
- ISBN 13 9780879515782
- BindingHardcover
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